Rigorous Honesty, in the search of recovery from gross obesity. Mainly opinion, not advice. Some speculation, some errors, some fiction.
Sugar, grain and processed products are not food. Omega 6 oil and dairy should be mainly avoided.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Gut bacteria and overeating

"Researchers in Shanghai studied mice who had been bred to
be resistant to obesity. These mice remained slim despite being fed a rich diet
and being kept from exercising. However, when some of these mice were injected
with the human bacterium enterobacter, they quickly became obese.

Enterobacter was first linked with obesity after being
found in high quantities in the gut of a morbidly obese human volunteer, said
the report from Shanghai's Jiaotong University.

The mice were injected with the bacterium for up to 10
weeks as part of the experiment.

The experiments show that the bacterium 'may causatively
contribute to the development of obesity' in humans, according to the paper
published in the International Society for Microbial Ecology."

Anecdotally, a couple of humans loss weight on specific diets that did not feed the bacteria, but there was no total energy input available. So did they lose weight because they ate less by willpower, or limited menu, or because of not feeding bacteria?

So it should not be in the gut anyway, so WTF. More useless information with respect to obesity.

Ultimately, the question becomes if one is able to remove all carbohydrates with a caloric density of say 0.2 K/gm, can I adhere to the eating plan long term and lose weight? It is the adherence that is the problem, along with overeating of meat.